someone said grant so the sweet. call girls like her ability to. be chilling. in the leaves she's available in the resort and spa. russia's president says the situation in libya is the outcome of colonel gadhafi crimes against his own people. suffer because of. the area long targets of government stronghold in tripoli that tell him to strike his no forty three left over sixty people that fighting intensifies while coalition forces insist that gadhafi is not a big target but just wait will all of this i'm going to slip in the capital city of tripoli join me in just a few moments. the u.n. security council meets behind closed doors here in new york to discuss what many are calling. campaign against libya details. how

did other news imagines it's a major evacuation from japan's fukushima nuclear site mid-field radiation could spread as smoke you see rising from a paralyzed reactor and. this is all to see for moscow good evening from me kevin i know it's now ten pm here on the top story this hour russia's president told colonel gadhafi he only has himself to blame for the current situation in libya to be timid vet have said the u.s. military intervention is a direct consequence of the behavior of libya's leaders and the crimes carried out against their own people but he was critical of the bombing in libya saying the no fly zone should be used only to protect civilians and bring about peace peter all of that has more on russia's reaction. president made yet have said that although

russia's initial response to the situation in libya had been to call for a peaceful solution there colonel could duffy's actions in persistently attacking his own people had forced the hand of the international community and that this was why russia had supported an arms in bargo and asset freeze and why russia hadn't used its veto on the un security council to block the no fly zone saying that russia supported some of the elements contained within that resolution. everything that's happening in libya is a result of the shameful behavior of its government on the crimes against their own people we shouldn't forget everything else is just a consequence of the recent ported one of the un security council resolutions and allow the other resolution to go through this was done consciously to prevent the escalation of violence but still the events that followed showed any decisions of this crime should be accompanied by thorough consultation as well as remembering

that the use of force should be proportionate to what is happening the fact that as a result of these actions civilian targets were damaged and according to unconfirmed reports innocent people have died shows that states taking part in the military strikes have achieved or president but yet have went further to say that the current armed intervention should remain within the parameters laid out by the u.n. security council resolution and that was to protect the civilian population of libya president medvedev also said that russia was prepared to step in as a mediator she broke a peace between the sides involved in the conflict. for its part the u.s. says it's fired twelve more cruise missiles at targets on monday and canadian planes have no join the action coalition forces claim to have destroyed a command center used by the libyan army in tripoli but tonight it could laugh it was a target there are also reports of sixty people have been killed so far. as the latest from the capital. what we're hearing from the coalition forces is that they've hit

one hundred and twenty four targets they're saying that the operation has been successful but they stopped the ground at vance and gadhafi streets there for two days now has a force has been unable to take to the skies we're also hearing that the no fly zone is now being extended waist woods and southwards over the country but at the same time there is intense to fight in in misrata it's the last rebel held town in the waist of this country it's about two hundred kilometers to the east of the capital city of tripoli we're hearing reports of a duffy's men have completely surrounded the town that they've cut off all supplies of electricity fuel and water we hearing reports that some of those recovery may not in the city seem to be in civilian clothing and this is raising alarm bells over the whole question of sleeper cells been activated we're also receiving very worrying reports that civilians have been brought in from other cities and towns to act as human shields against any possible coalition strikes this is in stark

contrast to the town of being ghazi which was the focal point of fighting for much of the past few days and we did that is the rebel stronghold in the east but rebels they say that they now are leaving the town advancing gracewood's and trying to recapture some of the towns and cities that they lost in fighting nothing's been heard from gadhafi himself since sunday when he gave a fifteen minute address to libyan state television he did not appear on camera but he was very defiant in that it was saying that he would not step down and again calling this international response illegitimate we are hearing from coalition forces that the duffy himself is not the target this is despite the fact that they hit his compound on sunday night but here on the ground there's a growing confusion in terms of what is the endgame of this international operation the rebels are increasingly calling for some kind of a cover as they move west woods as their advantage back over territory they've lost and no doubt the international community if it says it is there to protect the peace will need to respond to those calls in some kind. the manner that the sponson

might see innocent civilians being killed so is that kind of tension here and this city is only made more confusing by some of the statements we saw coming out of bush and today there we saw the british military st michael duffy remains a legitimate target because he is the hero of the army here now at the same time the questions in terms of how this will end up being answered here by saying either in a stalemate or in some kind of a failed state where you would see the rebels perhaps holding on to power in the east and gadhafi remaining entrepreneur in the ways that people are asking the question whether indeed this is in the best interests of libya party's policy or interpretations also reporting from the war zone online to. try to do these with things above her head while reporting over the last twenty four hours we're also hearing from the reuters news agency two news coming in of a new explosions heard in tripoli tonight anti aircraft fire being keep up today with the very latest blog as well on our web site r.t.

your column. also all you tube channels or dramatic video footage of the bombardment of libya plus much more take a look at youtube dot com slash r t. two. news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations to rule the day. the u.n. security council is holding a closed door meeting to discuss the situation in libya it was called the request of russia artie's more important following the developments for us in new york. do so is a letter that the security council received from the libyan foreign minister calling for this meeting according to the letter living officials say that

a barbaric bombing campaign has been launched on their country ever since the security council did a resolution last week thursday friday allowing for the international community impose a no fly zone over libya and paving the way for military intervention the libyan officials say that the bombs have not stopped possibly even escalated that this resolution that was adopted could potentially be a violation of international law and this has made the situation much much worse than it was before the no fly zone was imposed the libyan official did write to the security council saying that the u.s. and some european allies are taking extensive advantage of measures that were given to them by dropping bombs and targeting locations that are necessary and as a result civilians in libya are getting hurt if not killed so this is obviously

a pressing issue a matter of concern for the international community particularly when you consider that five of the fifteen security council members of steamed for from voting for this resolution because they were very much on sure whether or not military intervention would help ease the growing conflict that's taking place in the violence taking place right now in libya what is being said by officials in washington and what it's playing out for the world to see is quite different there's quite a contrast the pentagon says that they are very happy with the strikes in the straits that they've taken part in the u.s. taking part in and they had to leave has been the strikes have been very few affective in pushing putting stress on moammar qaddafi and his supporters but as of sunday night or according to published reports us. and britain have fired a total of one hundred twenty four tomahawk cruise missiles we do know that among many of the targets was no market off his compound in tripoli there have been

various reports of the amount of civilians that have been injured and were killed due to the ongoing strikes that have been played out by the u.s. france and britain strikes that are continuing. and it's not clear whether or not the european forces will move in on the ground the u.s. says that they will not be on the ground troops that will be moving in on libya but we should remind our viewers that this resolution that was adopted included the phrase all measures necessary to protect the civilians in libya so what will come next nobody knows but that is a topic that will be discussed within the security council later on today. from new york foreign forces that are involved in a humanitarian mission over libya. sort of told me it's actually a race results as you saw it. this is a colonial war libya has the largest reserves of oil on the african continent and

u.s. british and french bombing destruction of libya are meant to gain total control of that and not in any way to help any of the forces in libya both for the government or against and the guard less of what you think about the government or of the opposition this attack will be devastating for all the people of libya in the same way that war in iraq and afghanistan the people paid a whole renders and are still paying a horrendous freight and if there were so widest humanitarian concern in any of this it would also be addressing the people struggle in bahrain in yemen would be addressing the israeli bombardment of gaza accorsi don't talk about any of those things so this is not meant to help the people of libya it's meant to take a time when there is uncertainty destabilization in libya and in force an entire new colonial regime on the region and also to push back the

arab revolutionary upsurge. little wrangling over what's happening in libya is continuing in brussels with a return of e.u. foreign ministers they've agreed to bring in more sanctions and according to the french foreign minister no two could stop supporting coalition forces within a few days or europe correspondent daniel bushell but i'll go to the story. colonel gadhafi is a legitimate military target that comment just now from the defense secretary of the kingdom your thoughts has caused outrage here in nato as you say we're in the middle of e.u. and nato meetings which are principally focused on libya e.u. came out and agreed to disagree they said and didn't really agree on a strategy for libya and nato in the third day of talks there here in brussels also come out without much agreement of course in a much more menacing tone because they are leading this operation against libya on

the first day they did agree on a no fly zone imposing a no fly zone over libya then there was talk of moving eastward to protect the eastern strongholds of rebel stronghold of libya and only then as a sort of of the thought was the talk of humanitarian support now this was all backed by a u.n. resolution which are authorized the imposition of a no fly zone over libya and even then when the u.n. passed that vote it was abstained by four or five key states brazil russia india and china the states which are things along with germany and germany and turkey are now extremely concerned two key allies of nato say they're extremely concerned by nato those involved with they don't want to see that they want to see a cease fire immediately turkey adds that it is worried. whether its words why france is involvement by nato member france's involvement in this bombing campaign

the arab league another key ally in the region says the u.n. resolution it backed is not being carried out in the way that it's supported just outside this building and see war demonstration led by the arab community the very people who are asking for help for humanitarian aid to support the civilians that were being bombed by colonel gadhafi they have now come out very much they can. they're extremely concerned but the opposite of what they happen they wanted is happening they wanted the protection of civilians and now this being recalled this civilians caused by need so called mean we expect throughout the capitals of europe this week to see increasing numbers of the war there were strangers in london today and she would demonstration is planned so the tide of public opinion is turning against nato involvement in libya. but sooner attentions to japan now where emergency workers at the fukushima nuclear plant have been evacuated from the site

after smoke was seen rising from one of the crippled reactors and that's provoked fears of fresh radiation the potential nuclear meltdown engineers have however today managed to restore electricity to three reactors there and it's hoped that that could enable them to restart the failed cooling systems that's likely to be crucial they say to avoiding a crisis is turning into a catastrophe but despite all their efforts the systems that wrecked by the earthquake and tsunami are not yet operating for more on the implications let's bring in to the conversation dr paul dorfman from university of warrick in britain good news from burma. very good evening to you thanks being with us the japanese government insisted the leak of radiation into the atmosphere is very insignificant or not harmful because that sounds like the full picture though do you or do you think it's more to it. it's actually difficult to get a full picture of what's going on. so far a lot of commentators. are discussing the releases are not great the truth is that

nobody really knows what's happening yet unfortunately you guys seem like that there have been significant releases from the spent fuel ponds so unfortunately it might it might mean unfortunately that there have been significant releases when do you think the public will find out about that. it's always a difficult problem it was a difficult problem in windscale it was a difficult problem in three mile island it was a difficult problem in terms of perhaps the most important issue here is what it means for nuclear newbuild across the world and of course in my country in the u.k. and it's important. that we learn the lessons from this it's upsetting to think it's called the three hundred fifty proposed nuclear reactors in the world one hundred of them are proposed the seismic ring of fire around the pacific so. it's not exactly a pretty picture and of course in terms of sorry you are saying no this i thought it let's focus back in on the fukushima plant for

a minute if we can and things seem to be improving there we're looking at it from an outsider's point of view we don't really know what's happening but engineers there we have seen of him battling a myriad of problems that. is the worst danger over do you think from what you see . again it's very difficult to say it's difficult to pontificate about what's happening in fukushima from from burning in. it's difficult to get the correct readings all that i can really comment on is what this means for nuclear in general what we're discussing here is a low probability it may not happen but high risk if it does there will be impacts risk under conditions of uncertainty the problem with nuclear is what's known as murphy's law if something can go wrong eventually it will and unfortunately with nuclear when it goes wrong it really really does go wrong and what about the future

for this plant i mean fingers crossed ticketmaster if they will be avoided the managed to with it like all these things that i guess the the the whole plant will there be mothballed yeah if that is the case what's the long. future for it are there any safety implications if that happens. it seems that the four reactors will be written off the cost will probably be about thirty five billion. pounds to do that so that's quite a lot of money but as i say what seems to be important for not only japan but for the international community and certainly the community in the u.k. is what this means for potential new build. of the kind of risks that it raises or will we see a greater push away from nuclear energy more towards alternative energy sources the question is always asked what the sums never seem to out there. i don't think that's necessarily true. angela merkel in germany is certainly backing off nuclear

french course so are highly committed to it and of course the french have invested twelve point four billion pounds in buying our position in g. nuclear sites are already a point is is that in germany germany has installed more wind power than the entire nuclear capacity of the u.k. runs its installing about up to about one reactors worth of wind power per year and in two thousand and nine which is the last year that we have good figures for it install about four reactors worth of solar energy and we hope that two thousand and seven will be a lot better so there's a sort of myth that it can be done through renewables whereas in fact it is very likely it can be ok dr paul dorfman good to have your insights of the university of warwick in britain if you like you. well japanese government has ordered four regions around the trouble fukushima plant to suspend shipments of products that could contain traces of radioactive iodine in its arteries laura lister reports

next those worries of radiation are spreading far beyond japanese shores. as japan works overtime to avert a nuclear meltdown is another crisis in the making maybe maybe think twice second thoughts born of paranoia that radioactive remnants may reach far beyond japan's borders how worried about the seafood may be whether those people it is safe and radiation bomb in the water i would i want to be very wary of that for quite a while it's the fear of japanese imports going all the way to the top u.s. regulators have said they will increase screenings of food coming in from the embattled asian nation the european union has warned members to do the same and italy was the first e.u. nation to ban food imports from japan all together in the wake of the nuclear scare it's fueling suspicion that besides the quake this toonami and the nuclear crisis japan will soon have to deal with another problem becoming

a trade pariah more than likely will for reasons that may not be entirely radioactive countries all over the world in tough economic times and the star are looking for ways to subsidize their own producers their workers and so an incident like the one unfolding in japan gives them quite a good reason to do something that they may have been looking to do anyway this is bad for trade made worse for the country itself if made in japan comes to mean made a nuclear wasteland to consumers in countries like the u.s. we're here in times square and i wanted to come down here because it is where the rubber meets the road as far as advertising in this country you can really see the brands to play a major role in the united states i wanted to see how many of them were japanese now take a look at this center opposed to advertising from top to bottom you can see so many c.d.k. toshiba all japanese corporations playing a major role in the u.s.

i noticed even our camera in my my clip from my microphone or a big factor by sony and with a nuclear disaster there is no tell. what the toy will be on but the manufacturing of companies like that but also their brand presence a country like the u.s. and this dad had the made in japan label that would be concerned about like televisions the components that might carry the radio active materials could be fueling this war and japan's economy will feel it for a long time to if trade suffers a major blow and this is dragged down already near zero growth rate in japan if it does that it's going to have bigger effects internal to japan and globally and we don't know exactly what those are but they're potentially quite significant significant because in a global economy which made in japan matters for everyone many of the world's cell phones laptops in cars rely on a poxy computer chips for auto parts from the country stoppages in manufacturing

and trade consent shock waves through the system likely farther reaching and the radiation itself lauren mr r.t. new york. ten twenty two moscow time let me take you through some international news in brief tanks and troops moved into the yemeni capital after three top army commanders joined anti-government protesters becomes a day off the president's alley abdula cell a fired his entire cabinet and political revolts been met with a fierce crap then of recent weeks with the run fifty people killed by government forces on one day alone the opposition has been demanding the president step down for two months now. fifty two miners a fifth dead after a series of gas explosions in ramallah started restaurant works continuing but officials say those little finding any somalis because of a fire lack of oxygen to weeks ago say the city has declared dangerous out inspectors from the city. haiti's been voted in the second round of presidential elections the choice is between

a pop singer the former first lady hillary results are expected by the end of march the winner will face the task of rebuilding a million homes of lost in the devastating earthquake of january twenty. one life support said a nazi was you know including news of a new leader of the russian premier league that's to come in but uli is here next with the business before. that's right time to have a look at what's going on in the world of business and german industrial and energy major be a serf is joining the russian lode south stream gas pipeline project going to us all a division of beers will join gas from and the two main partners in the twenty one billion dollar project to bring russian gas to southern europe. has not said how much it's going to invest and. what sort of stake it might take over that it has announced it's an investment program worth twenty billion dollars in russia from

results so in terms of negotiating electricity to france regarding its involvement in the project prime minister putin search here and german chancellor merkel welcomes be it serves involvement inside st. and the un is extending losses after its biggest slide in six months against the dollar on friday the move follows an agreement among the world's wealthiest countries to try to control japan's volatile currency began rose strongly after the earthquake struck on march eleventh and expectations money will be patrick to japan for insurance and reconstruction costs economists are just efforts to prevent the humanitarian crisis becoming a financial crisis are being successful while japanese growth will be hit in the short term and reconstruction will provide stimulus in the coming years. the economy will take a knock from mr zoster and it's very possible that the japanese economy will

contract to the next three months possibly even true because it's grants g.d.p. is expected to still be over one percent through trees i was in the lab that night and revisions have been in and over it's a downward revisions to growth of two thousand and eleven of course in the two thousand and twelve as the reconstruction is fully underway you can expect growth to be slightly better next year so there's definitely a new food north a lot of potential for the economy to benefit well from the reconstruction and of course this will take a particularly long time. and oil prices are following the u.s. led airstrikes against levy are fueling concerns about destructions to supplies branch curtis trading at one hundred fifteen dollars a barrel doubling to guy is around one hundred and two analysts expect an increase

in demand for oil as more fuel will be needed both great reconstruction entered. a look at how equities are trading wall street is making a strong start to the week with just under two hundred points and trading above twelve thousand votes just. i've been encouraged by a.t.m. to use arms it was a shame on you as division of chemo bio in the move that would make it the nation's biggest wireless player there's also some optimism that japan's nuclear crisis has been brought under control. and european stocks finished monday's trading higher the footsies gaining more than one percent while the third point two point three percent. telecom shares were on the rise but it was telecom it was up twelve percent. and despite strong performance in your russian stock still relatively modest gains on monday and there are lots of good solid eighteen after out before we joined the previous week's all the r.g.s.

close one percent under my six average of around half a cent well the latest stocks were mostly in the blood pool stronger commodity prices let's not have a look at some individual show russia's state owned council monopoly. point eight percent on profit taking off posting a seven percent increase last week twelve continue to gain on the uncertainty in the energy markets are going to the cent per pound ended up point four percent after its reported and almost a full increase in its net profit from last year up to six point four billion dollars michael stein from was gracious as the result was one of the highlights on monday. speer being released very strong two thousand and ten net profit figures which came in about six percent ahead of consensus and well above the creatures forecasts of the company also announced plans to roll over depository receipts program which is going to make the stock a lot more investable by a lot of long only investors in north america and in continental europe but in

terms of winners we also see street today in the steel companies helped by the strong industrial output data for us for february on the losing side we see gazprom misspeaking a pause after having had a great run last week the stock was up more than seven percent helped by the big improvement in european gas prices. michael. that's all we have time for now join the last on one last time for more business stories here on r.t. and get more from our web site archie dot com slash business. the old. the be. thank. you are.